Search, stage: silence, national level, outcome reversed
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16 incidents match this view.
Country: Australia, RSF 2026 rank: 33rd of 180 Brazil, RSF 2026 rank: 52nd of 180 Czechia, RSF 2026 rank: 11th of 180 Germany, RSF 2026 rank: 14th of 180 India, RSF 2026 rank: 157th of 180 Iran, RSF 2026 rank: 177th of 180 Philippines, RSF 2026 rank: 114th of 180 Poland, RSF 2026 rank: 27th of 180 Portugal, RSF 2026 rank: 10th of 180 South Africa, RSF 2026 rank: 21st of 180 South Korea, RSF 2026 rank: 47th of 180 Spain, RSF 2026 rank: 29th of 180 United Kingdom, RSF 2026 rank: 18th of 180 United States, RSF 2026 rank: 64th of 180 Zimbabwe, RSF 2026 rank: 124th of 180
Continent: Africa Asia Europe North America South America Oceania
Tactic: Prior restraint (10) Licensing and closure of outlets (7) Shutdowns and blocking (6) Detention and violence (4) Credential control (2) Access bans (1) Secrets and espionage laws (1) Insult and defamation laws (1)
Stage: Silence (16)
Outcome: Reversed (16)
Level: National (16)
Head of government: Adolf Hitler Alexander Dubček António de Oliveira Salazar Chun Doo-hwan Daniel François Malan Ferdinand Marcos Francisco Franco Getúlio Vargas Hassan Rouhani Indira Gandhi John Curtin Margaret Thatcher P. W. Botha Richard Nixon Robert Mugabe Wojciech Jaruzelski
| Date | Incident | Country | Tactic | Head of government | Outcome |
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| November 16, 2019 | Iran: near-total internet shutdown during fuel-price protests | Iran (RSF 2026 rank: 177th of 180) | Shutdowns and blocking | Hassan Rouhani | Reversed (November 23, 2019) |
| September 12, 2003 | Zimbabwe: police close the Daily News under the media registration law | Zimbabwe (RSF 2026 rank: 124th of 180) | Licensing and closure of outlets | Robert Mugabe | Reversed (May 27, 2010) |
| October 1988 | United Kingdom bars broadcasters from airing Sinn Féin members' own voices | United Kingdom (RSF 2026 rank: 18th of 180) | Licensing and closure of outlets | Margaret Thatcher | Reversed (September 16, 1994) |
| November 2, 1985 | South Africa bans television and photographic coverage of unrest under a state of emergency | South Africa (RSF 2026 rank: 21st of 180) | Shutdowns and blocking | P. W. Botha | Reversed (June 1, 1990) |
| December 13, 1981 | Poland's martial law government shuts nearly all newspapers and interns journalists overnight | Poland (RSF 2026 rank: 27th of 180) | Shutdowns and blocking | Wojciech Jaruzelski | Reversed (July 22, 1983) |
| July 31, 1980 | South Korea's martial-law government purges journalists who resisted press controls | South Korea (RSF 2026 rank: 47th of 180) | Licensing and closure of outlets | Chun Doo-hwan | Reversed (June 1, 1987) |
| June 26, 1975 | India imposes pre-press controls on every newspaper during the 1975 Emergency | India (RSF 2026 rank: 157th of 180) | Prior restraint | Indira Gandhi | Reversed (March 21, 1977) |
| September 21, 1972 | Philippines President Marcos closes every major news outlet under martial law | Philippines (RSF 2026 rank: 114th of 180) | Shutdowns and blocking | Ferdinand Marcos | Reversed (February 25, 1986) |
| June 15, 1971 | United States government seeks an injunction to stop The New York Times publishing the Pentagon Papers | United States (RSF 2026 rank: 64th of 180) | Prior restraint | Richard Nixon | Reversed (June 30, 1971) |
| August 21, 1968 | Soviet-led invasion of Czechoslovakia is followed by the return of government press controls | Czechia (RSF 2026 rank: 11th of 180) | Prior restraint | Alexander Dubček | Reversed (November 1, 1989) |
| July 17, 1950 | South Africa's Suppression of Communism Act lets the government ban publications and restrict individuals | South Africa (RSF 2026 rank: 21st of 180) | Prior restraint | Daniel François Malan | Reversed (July 31, 1991) |
| April 16, 1944 | Australia's wartime government seizes a Sydney newspaper edition under press controls rules | Australia (RSF 2026 rank: 33rd of 180) | Prior restraint | John Curtin | Reversed (April 18, 1944) |
| 1939 | Brazil's Vargas government creates a state messaging department with broad press powers | Brazil (RSF 2026 rank: 52nd of 180) | Licensing and closure of outlets | Getúlio Vargas | Reversed (January 1, 1945) |
| April 1938 | Franco's Spain requires state permission to be a journalist under a wartime Press Law | Spain (RSF 2026 rank: 29th of 180) | Credential control | Francisco Franco | Reversed (April 1, 1977) |
| October 4, 1933 | Nazi Germany's Editors Law bars Jewish journalists from the press and puts editors under state direction | Germany (RSF 2026 rank: 14th of 180) | Credential control | Adolf Hitler | Reversed (May 8, 1945) |
| 1933 | Portugal's Salazar government formally establishes press controls under a new constitution | Portugal (RSF 2026 rank: 10th of 180) | Prior restraint | António de Oliveira Salazar | Reversed (April 25, 1974) |
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